Two 23-year-olds held after 28.2 kg of cannabis found in Bruges hotel rooms
Bruges police arrested two 23-year-old men leaving Hotel Sleep & Go in Sint-Michiels and found 28.2 kg of cannabis and a hand grenade in their two rooms. An investigating judge held both for drug trafficking and illegal weapons possession.
🇧🇪 Hotel Sleep & Go, Sint-Michiels, Bruges, West Flanders · Belgium
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Arrested
2
Cannabis
28.2 kg
Agencies
Bruges police zone (PZ Brugge), Public Prosecutor's Office of West Flanders +1
Bruges police detectives arrested two 23-year-old men as they left Hotel Sleep &
Go in Sint-Michiels, a district of Bruges, on the evening of Monday 5 October
2026.[1][2]The two were caught after information reached the Bruges police zone
and officers followed the suspects’ movements.[1]
A search of two hotel rooms found 28.2 kg of cannabis.[3][2]Bruges police valued
the cannabis at 282,000 euros on the street.[1]The army bomb disposal service
DOVO came to the hotel to make the grenade safe, and police also seized a car.[4]
The Bruges drug team had been told in mid-September that suspicious people were
appearing around a hotel on the edge of the city.[1]After the observations,
the Bruges detectives decided to search two hotel rooms because there were
enough indications that the suspects were dealing drugs from the hotel.[1]
The West Flanders prosecutor’s office brought the men before an investigating
judge over drug trafficking and illegal weapons possession, and the judge
ordered both held in custody.[4]They were due before the Bruges council
chamber, the court that rules on pre-trial detention, on Friday 9 October 2026.[4]The Bruges police zone continues the investigation under the Bruges
investigating judge.[1]
The submitted PZC article is behind a login and only its headline, timestamp and photo caption were captured, so its account of a later council-chamber ruling could not be read.
The council chamber was due to rule on the men's continued detention on 9 October 2026, and search results indicate the detention was extended, but no article describing that hearing could be opened, so the outcome is not stated in the text.
Police valued the 28.2 kg of cannabis at 282,000 euros on the street and also found about 7,235 euros in cash; the cash amount could not be retained as a structured figure from the opened text.
Police describe 28.2 kg of cannabis without giving the product form, so it is recorded as dried cannabis by weight.
The hand grenade and its disposal by DOVO are part of this event but are not cannabis quantities.
No trial date or sentence has been reported, and the two men are identified only by age.
The submitted Nieuwsblad article body is paywalled and was not captured, so the November council-chamber ruling details (which suspect was held a further month, electronic monitoring and prosecution appeal) cannot be verified from the opened source.
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